Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-04-24

speech or Judge yebs T. Gssirseh'
or YseAerteksburg.

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We publish below the speech OF
Judge John Il. Goodrich, delivers
Washington last week at q meeung
held TO express sympathy Tor Ireland
Judge Goolrick said :,
In 1897 Charles james Fox SAID /;
"I would have the Irish Government
regulated by Irish notions and Irish
preiudices." Ninety years have been
added to the calendar OF time since
then, marked by number OF attempts
by England at coercive and repressiye
LEGISLATION against Ireland and en-
phasized by successful failures OF TIER
execution, until now, William Il. Glad
stone-"the noblest Roman OF them
aur--standing on the lofty plain OF
patriotic citizenship and wise states
manship, moved by the high and holy
inspirations of the age, warned and
voiced by the teachings and tendencies
Of the century towards the more en-
lalged civil liberty of the people, the
old man eloquent would put into prac-
teal operation the suppressed opinion
Of FOX. England would again con-
summate tie folly and perpetrate the
sin of again attempting to crush out
the liberty and political-sye, social
life of generous, true, ana noble peo-
PIE by coercive legislation, having for
lis object and purpose the suspension
of the writ of hd6e0s corpus IN times
of peace the transportation of Irish
men charged with alleged crimes to
England to be tried by alien iurics
the employment of a stipendiary magis-
tracy endowed with unusual, enor-
nous, and arbitrary powers the main
tenance in Ireland OF a standing army,
to threaten by its presence and disturb
by its powers. Gladstone asked in the
uame of all Ireland for an Irish Perlia-
ment in its stead. He is offered for
that people either prison or a
poorhouse, instead of the guaran-
iced right of trial Ivy a jury OF their
peers. An Irishman charged with a
pretended or alleged crime is TO be
tried before an alien jury, which IL
arplauded "well done" only on CON
yiclion, before Judge who will he
afraid to acquit, in a court room, at
The portals OF which stands not the
blind Goddess of Justice, with the even
scales, but where stands the Goddess
with eyes Attained and Unattended by
prejudice and hate, holding in her
hands the sharpened sword of the
executioner and thus, upon informa-
ton had from a constabulary of cow
ardly spies and informers, who receive
their blood-money from their lordly
master, all done under the suspension
of the sacred writ of habeas corpus.
Though the Queen herself says that
peace reigns in all her realms, the
iow.abiding, liberty-loyiug people OF
the world in amaZement and with hor-
ror ask, Why this legislation ? The
Chief Secretary of Ireland, the chief
Prosecutor of the Irish people-their
lord high executioner-says it is de-
manded by the criminal and lawless
condition of Ireland. Away with such
transparent sophistry, such hollow
mockery, for only yesterday, in the
House of Commons, it was charged and
admitted that this was false. Ireland
presents an unusual phenomenon, n
splendid spectacle in the history of
governments. For the last twenty
years there has been decrease III
population, an increase i'll pauperlsm
forced by government legislation, and
at the same time decrease in crime,
demonstrating that old Erin suffers,
but with sublime heroism endures
The criminal statistics show that
there is less crime, less lawlessness, in
Ireland PEE capita than in England
yes. in London; but when they would
place the iron heel of despotism on the
too often wounded bosom OF this peo-
pie, and they struggle with manly
might for light, liberty, life, they call
that struggle curse. When a people
crushed by an intolerance, intolerable,
and tyranuical nonresident landlord.
ism would pray for help, relief,
I mercy, from its soulless and heart
less executors this is declared law
lessness. Against this is our protest
made. Ireland condemning, abhorring,
and dospising the red flag of anarchism,
damning to eternal infamy the dyna.
mite and the dynamitard will yet march
under the green flag Of Erin to vic
tory sustained by the sentiments of
people who love justice England can
not arrest the march of human pro-
gless cannot stop or stay "the for
ward" of Christian civilization can
not win, WOO, or frighten old Ireland
from demanding for her people rights
which of right are theirs cannot rea-
son down or battle down the noble
sentiments and righteous aspirations
OF this people. Coercion, eviction,
Imprisonment, and execution may
follow each other in CHASTITY and
ehostly train, but there, as ever, the
blood of martyrs will be the seed as
well as the seal OF better Govern
ment. 1t is said that this agitation
here-this public protests an I'M
warranted and impairment interference.
Where. / pray you, where, better than
from this fair land of ours should the
protest come? We remember that Ire
land gave to this republic nine signers
of the Declaration OF Independence-an
Andrew Jackson and John @. Calhoun
ten heterogeneous to our armies, Blk
commanders to our navy. We remember
that here Irish-American manhood has
been illustrated and illuminated by the
dCathless Mea9her, when he barred
his breast to the storm of shot and
shell in the charge never cclipsed IN
bliliiancy or excelled in bravery in all